Here was a perfect intelligence cycle: Gordievsky was briefing the prime minister on how to respond to the Soviets, and then reporting back the Soviet reaction to that behavior. Spies usually furnish facts, leaving the recipient to analyze them; with his unique perspective, Gordievsky was able to interpret, for the West, what the KGB was thinking, hoping, and fearing. “That is the essence of Oleg’s contribution,” said the MI6 analyst. “Getting inside the minds of others, getting into their logic, their rationality.”
